Generally, as I've also found in past years,
posts about legal research services are popular.
Last week
I posted about Legal Research Technology Skills.
Not exact matches
I have more details
about this in a
post today at
Legal Blog Watch: Bloomberg Takes on Wexis With New
Research Service.
Two years ago, I wrote a
post titled, In Litigation and
Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, in which I discussed three products — Lex Machina, Ravel Law and ALM Judicial Perspectives — that were extracting data from court dockets and applying analytics to reveal insights
about judges, such as how they might rule on a specific type of motion or how long they might take to issue a decision.
I also wrote recently
about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced
research site at which users
post legal issues to be «argued» and other users
post cases that are relevant to the issue.
Law school librarian bloggers
post on their experiences with and ideas
about teaching law students how to conduct
legal research.
And while thinking
about all of this a colleague * was kind enough to send around a link to a recent
post by Brian Sheppard over on the
Legal Rebels blog called, «Does machine - learning - powered software make good
research decisions?
The letter expressed concern that the blog
post in question sent «a message that
legal research and writing («LRW») courses are not rigorous, underestimates the ability of LRW faculty to comment on students» cognitive skills, harms students by discounting the valuable and thoughtful insight we have to offer
about students seeking to transfer to Yale, and devalues LRW professors as a whole.»
The week features a mix of reflective pieces on the nature of
legal research and writing and the teaching and learning of the same in
legal education, and substantive
posts students wrote
about their major memo
legal research.
Sponsored
post LexisNexis are a Bronze Sponsor of LawFest 2017, and tell us
about their new partnership with Conveyancing Solutions Limited Global leaders in
legal research and technology, LexisNexis have announced a partnership with cloud - based conveyancing software provider, Conveyancing Solutions Ltd..
A comment by Karen Sawatzky on Simon's Scrolling
post inspired me to think
about the language that is most appropriate when teaching law students
legal research.
A few weeks ago, in a
post here
about Fastcase's addition of blog commentary from the LexBlog Network, I wrote that for any
legal research company aiming to compete in the big leagues against the likes of Westlaw and LexisNexis, «secondary content is the Holy Grail.»
Following my
post earlier this week
about the benchmark report published by Blue Hill
Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of th
Research that assessed the ROSS Intelligence
legal research platform, I had several questions about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of th
research platform, I had several questions
about the report and many readers contacted me with questions of their own.
Ah yes — but mine would be a law school rant, which gets us back to other
posts about how the otherwise splendid new graduates couldn't do
legal research, if their lives depended on it.
In a
post yesterday, In Litigation and
Legal Research, Judge Analytics is the New Black, I wrote
about three websites that provide data and analytics
about judges.
I also wrote recently
about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced
research site at which users
post legal issues to be «argued» and other users
post cases -LSB-...]
Following up on my
posts earlier today (here and here)
about the acquisition by LexisNexis of Silicon Valley
legal analytics company Lex Machina, I had an opportunity to speak with Steven Errick, vice president and managing director of
research services at LexisNexis, who gave me more details
about the deal and plans for the future.
Also on the topic of
researching legislation: it doesn't appear that SLAW has previously mentioned Eric Appleby's free online
Legal Research Guide to Statutes 2007 (PDF, 44 pages)(Eric is the founder of Maritime Law Book; Gary Rodrigues
posted here last year on SLAW
about Eric).
Posts share insights from quantitative
legal research on corporate law, capital markets, finance, and mergers & acquisitions as well as the debate
about what law schools need to do to produce «practice - ready» graduates and «practice - ready» scholarship.
This is my hundredth Slaw
posting and rather than
post on
legal information,
research and the Technologies of access and knowledge analysis, I'd like to think
about slaw as a community of knowledge and where we've come from since those trans - mondial
postings about taxonomies of
legal knowledge back in June en route to India.
I created this blog to
post about interesting
legal developments, presentations, and
legal research.
Simon Chester's
post last month
about outsourcing
legal research referred to a recent U.S. article.
Simon Fodden
posted here last Fall
about Obiter2, the wonderful Quebec -
legal -
research - focused website by lawyer Marco Rivard.
Interesting
post in Law.com
about how the first year law students appear to an experienced law librarian, and what their attitudes are to books and paper materials, and to
legal research assignments.
The original law librarian blog
post was
about legal research lessons run.
Recently I
posted about an article I had published in Chicago Lawyer Magazine
about using Adobe Acrobat as part of my
legal research workflow.
However, as noted by The Washington
Post, Facebook's
legal counsel Colin Stretch plans to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee this week that the Internet
Research Agency created
about 80,000 inflammatory
posts between 2015 and 2017 that 29 million US people may have seen in their newsfeed.
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